Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Calling configure at the end of autogen.sh?

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From: "HOOD, Andy" <ahood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:33:41 +1100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joerg Mayer
> 
> Currently, configure is run as the last step in autogen.sh
> I'd like to remove that. Reason: After adding or removing gtk/gtk2
> packages I need to rerun autogen.sh and I prefer to run
> ./config.status --recheck && ./config.status to running
> configure <options>. I think it's more flexible for those who really
> want it to create an alias or script that adds whatever next step
> they want to do after autogen.sh.

The other trick I've seen and like is for autogen.sh to test for the
existance of config.status and run "./config.status --recheck" instead of
configure. make will then rerun "./config.status"

Regards,
Andrew Hood
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you
didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. --
Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992

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